I’ve spent my entire life apart from extended family. No aunts and uncles living next door. No grandparents to babysit or pick me up after school. Really it was just my mom because my dad traveled for work most of the time and my only sister is ten years older, who left for college when […]
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I love this time of year. There’s something about the twinkling of the lights from the Christmas tree piercing the darkness of the early morning that seems to increase my awareness of His presence. He’s so near, summoning me to experience more of Him. Advent—this waiting with an expectancy of our coming King. This year
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It’s Sunday before Thanksgiving, and the kids are off the whole week, and I just want to hide under the covers. Can we just skip over this silly holiday? I’ll be completely honest; I struggle deeply during the Thanksgiving season. I know I should be extremely excited and grateful for all that God has done and
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Darkness loomed as we walked hand-in-hand into the Alabama Children’s hospital that Friday morning. Another heart procedure awaited our six-year-old on the other side of those doors. He was pretty clueless. We were pretty anxious knowing the story could fall apart right as it was getting good. Read more here about our questioning faith. He wasn’t
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When your sister-in-law, who also has a bundle of children, calls to invite you on a girls weekend to the mountains of New York, you go without a second thought. The stars aligned and both our husbands agreed to watch the children. The last weekend in September I found myself boarding a plane alone for
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I sat in the quiet stale room of the hospital, six years ago, listening only to the beeping sounds of the machines. I wasn’t sure how we got here, except that it all started with an email from our adoption agency asking if we could take a baby with a severe heart defect. I had
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Something happened about six months ago, maybe even longer, time seems to slip away. I found myself lying in bed unable to sleep. The thoughts wouldn’t stop coming. Maybe thoughts is a gentle word because they were lies. They hissed louder this particular night. Seemed to stare me straight in the eyes: “Just look at
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The text came across my phone as I was out walking with my neighbor. “Lea, she has a brain bleed. They are transporting her by helicopter.” Her daughter is only ten. She simply went outside before school to ride her bike and took a spill, earning herself a helicopter ride along with a few days
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It’s becoming increasingly clear to me: life is most lived in the slow. Many things are missed when life is lived at a high-pace. Yeah, you may feel accomplished when a lot was checked off your to-do list, but character is developed, and wounds are healed in the in-between moments when we think nothing productive
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I hear him talking in the distance to an old friend on the phone. “She’s put the book thing on hold right now to care for the children” my husband responded, I am assuming to the question about how my book is going. That question arises pretty often, not just in my life but women’s
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